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"Relations of the Saganaga granite to the surrounding rocks," by 
U. S. Grant. Only that part of the granite lying in Minnesota (at the 
northwestern corner of Cook county) was discussed. The granite lies 
unconforniably below the Animikie on the southeast, is intrusive into 
the '"greenstones" on the south, which are also unconformable below 
the Animikie, and is unconformable below the Upper Keewatin on the 
west. Attention was called to the fact that a very large portion of the 
"greenstones" of this part of the state shows no evidence of having 
been deposited in the water, and also to the probability of the separa- 
tion of the Lower Keewatin into two unconformable series, both of 
which contain much "greenstone." The author regards the "green- 
stones" immediately adjoining the Saganaga granite on the south, and 
also those just south of the Basswood granite, as probably belonging 
to the lower series (Basement Complex), while the "greenstones" as- 
sociated with the jaspilytes and iron ores of the Keewatin are regarded 
mainly as eruptives of later date than the jaspilytes of the upper series. 
A Geological Survey OF the. South African Republic 
has recently been decided upon by the government of that 
state and has been placed under the direction of Dr. G. A. F. 
Molengraaff, as state geologist. The results of this survey will 
be pul:»lished by means of annual reports and from time to 
time of separate papers, accompanied by maps. A geological 
museum and a library will be established at Pretoria in con- 
nection with the survey. 
Das Antlitz der Erde, b)'Kd. Suess, has been translated 
into French under the direction of Emm. de Margerie. The 
translation is entitled "La Face de la Terre." and it has an 
introduction by Marcel Bertrand. This work is published l)y 
Armand Colin & Co. (5 rue de Mezieres, Paris), and the first 
volume has recently been issued. 
The Marsh Pale()\tol()(;ical Collections. 
At the meeting of the Yale Corporation, held on the 13th 
inst., O. C. Marsh, professor of jjaleontology, formally pre- 
sented to the University the valuable scientific collections 1)e- 
longing to him, now deposited in the Peabody Museum. 
These collections, six in nimiber, are in many respects the 
most extensive and valuable of any in this country, and have 
l)een brought together by Prof. Marsh at great labor and 
expense, during the last thirty years. The paleontological 
collections are well known, and were mainly securerl by Prof. 
Marsh during his explorations in the Rocky mountains. They 
include most of the ty]:)e specimens he has described in his 
various publications. 
The collection of vertelirate fossils is the most important 
and valuable of all, and includes, among many others, (i) the 
series of fossils illustrating the genealogy of the horse, as 
.made out by Prof. Marsh, and accepted by Huxley, who used 
it as the basis -of his New York lectures ; (2) the birds with 
teeth, nearly two hundred individuals, described in Prof. 
Marsh's well-known monogra])li "Odontornithes"; (3'! the 
